Eva Backhaus studied philosophy and biology in Frankfurt (Germany). In 2022 she finished her PhD on the interdependency of action and perception (Frankfurt/Berkeley). Currently, she works as a Post-Doc at the the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research deals with question of human-nature interaction concerning specifically different concepts of human and non-human action and question of sustainability. She is also an arborist.

Grit Dommes is a German literature scholar. She has conducted research on Droste-Hülshoff, Schiller, Wedekind and Wohmann and has contributed to various editorial and handbook projects. She studied and taught at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and TU Darmstadt and has gained considerable expertise in academic editing. Since 2021, she has been the scientific coordinator and managing director of the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin.

Susanne Hauser has been a professor of art and cultural history in the architecture programme at Berlin University of the Arts since 2005. Her research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of the built environment with a special interest in urban development and architectural design processes. Currently she is conducting research on the concepts and roles of ‚sites‘ in urban transformation processes reacting to climate change. As a member of the International Research Centre Intervening Arts (CRC 1512) she explores the properties and options of architecture as intervening art.

After studying German and English language and literature in Heidelberg and Warwick (UK), Tim Lörke joined the Faust Archive and Faust Museum in Knittlingen as a doctoral researcher. He completed his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis on the Faust myth and competing political cultural concepts in Thomas Mann, Ferruccio Busoni, Hans Pfitzner and Hanns Eisler. This was followed by assistantships in Heidelberg and at Freie Universität Berlin and joint research projects with the German Literature Archive Marbach a.N. and the Berlin State Library. During his time as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the FU Berlin, he was invited to the University of Notre Dame (USA) as a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor. From 2018 to 2021, he was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre Affective Societies at the FU Berlin.

Henning Podulski is a German literature scholar and works at the University of Bonn. In his research, he examines forms of engaged writing, the context of socialization moments in the literature of the work class and socio-philosophical concepts such as obstinacy and their epistemological potential in literary discourse.

Laura Rogalski is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. As a sociologist, she focuses on cultural sociology, social theory, qualitative methods, and right-wing extremism. Her most recently published article is “On Writing Schools and Pegida Sympathizers. New-Right Literary Criticism” (in German, 2022). At the CRC 1512, she is pursuing a PhD thesis on artists’ and activists’ perspectives on the social impact of their practice.

Andrea Schütte is a German literature scholar and works as a postdoc at the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin. In her research for the CRC, she focusses on the claim to intervention of proletarian-revolutionary writing in the Weimar Republic, the formation of public and counter-public spheres and forensic writing processes in reportage literature.